In the critically ill patient, diabetes predicts mortality independent of statin therapy but is not associated with acute lung injury: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patients with diabetes mellitus form 23%-30% of published cohorts of critically ill patients. Conflicting published evidence links diabetes mellitus to both higher and lower mortality. Other cohort studies suggest that diabetes mellitus protects against acute lung injury. We hypothesized that diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor for mortality. We further hypothesized that diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for cardiac overload and not for acute lung injury.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

The intensive care unit of a tertiary referral hospital.

Patients

From November 1, 2004, to October 1, 2007, a cohort of patients admitted ≥48 hrs to the intensive care unit.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Of 2,

SUBMITTER: Koh GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3379571 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature